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1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
216444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
3606576ceSSteven Rostedt# Architectures that offer an FUNCTION_TRACER implementation should
4606576ceSSteven Rostedt#  select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER:
516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo#
62a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
78d26487fSTörök Edwinconfig USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
88d26487fSTörök Edwin	bool
98d26487fSTörök Edwin
102a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbeckerconfig NOP_TRACER
112a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker	bool
122a3a4f66SFrédéric Weisbecker
1354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_RETHOOK
1454ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1554ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
1654ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig RETHOOK
1754ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
1854ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on HAVE_RETHOOK
1954ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
2054ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Enable generic return hooking feature. This is an internal
2154ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  API, which will be used by other function-entry hooking
2254ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu	  features like fprobe and kprobes.
2354ecbe6fSMasami Hiramatsu
24606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2516444a8aSArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	bool
26555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
275fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
28bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
29fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
3015e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	bool
31555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
325fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
3315e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
34a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS
35a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	bool
36a1be9cccSDonglin Peng
37a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
38a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool
39a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
40a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  True if ftrace_graph_func() is defined.
41a762e926SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
42677aa9f7SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
43677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt	bool
44555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
455fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
46677aa9f7SSteven Rostedt
4706aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsuconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
4806aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu	bool
4906aeaaeaSMasami Hiramatsu
50763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
51763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
52763e34e7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
53cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
54cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	bool
55cbad0fb2SMark Rutland
56*9f0cb917SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_EXTRA_IPI_TRACEPOINTS
57*9f0cb917SSteven Rostedt	bool
58*9f0cb917SSteven Rostedt	help
59*9f0cb917SSteven Rostedt	 For architectures that use ipi_raise, ipi_entry and ipi_exit
60*9f0cb917SSteven Rostedt	 tracepoints.
61*9f0cb917SSteven Rostedt
6202a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
6302a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
6402a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
6502a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If this is set, then arguments and stack can be found from
6694d095ffSMark Rutland	 the ftrace_regs passed into the function callback regs parameter
6702a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 by default, even without setting the REGS flag in the ftrace_ops.
6894d095ffSMark Rutland	 This allows for use of ftrace_regs_get_argument() and
6994d095ffSMark Rutland	 ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer().
7002a474caSSteven Rostedt (VMware)
71762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS
72762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool
73762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
74762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	 If this is set, ftrace_regs has pt_regs, thus it can convert to
75762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	 pt_regs without allocating memory.
76762abbc0SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
779440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)config HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE
789440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	bool
799440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	help
809440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	  If the architecture generates __patchable_function_entries sections
819440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	  but does not want them included in the ftrace locations.
829440155cSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
838da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
848da3821bSSteven Rostedt	bool
85555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
865fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
878da3821bSSteven Rostedt
8866700001SJosh Stoneconfig HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
89ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool
90555f386cSMike Frysinger	help
915fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.rst
92ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
93a2546faeSSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_FENTRY
94a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	bool
95a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	help
96a2546faeSSteven Rostedt	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
97a2546faeSSteven Rostedt
982f4df001SVasily Gorbikconfig HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
992f4df001SVasily Gorbik	bool
1002f4df001SVasily Gorbik	help
1012f4df001SVasily Gorbik	  Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
1022f4df001SVasily Gorbik
10322c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
10422c8542dSSami Tolvanen	bool
10522c8542dSSami Tolvanen	help
10622c8542dSSami Tolvanen	  Arch supports objtool --mcount
10722c8542dSSami Tolvanen
108280981d6SSathvika Vasireddyconfig HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT
109280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	bool
110280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	help
111280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  Arch supports the objtool options --mcount with --mnop.
112280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  An architecture can select this if it wants to enable nop'ing
113280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy	  of ftrace locations.
114280981d6SSathvika Vasireddy
115cf4db259SSteven Rostedtconfig HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
11672441cb1SSteven Rostedt	bool
11772441cb1SSteven Rostedt	help
11872441cb1SSteven Rostedt	  C version of recordmcount available?
11972441cb1SSteven Rostedt
1204ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1214ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       bool
1224ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       help
1234ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)         An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
1244ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)	 at build time.
1254ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)
1266b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
1276b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       bool
1286b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       default y
1294ed308c4SSteven Rostedt (Google)       depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
1306b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       help
1316b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)         Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
1326b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)
133352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACER_MAX_TRACE
134352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool
135352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
136ea632e9fSJosh Triplettconfig TRACE_CLOCK
137ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	bool
138ea632e9fSJosh Triplett
1397a8e76a3SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER
1407a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	bool
141ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
14222287688SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select IRQ_WORK
1437a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt
1445f77a88bSTom Zanussiconfig EVENT_TRACING
145b11c53e1SZhaolei	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
14660f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
147b11c53e1SZhaolei	bool
148b11c53e1SZhaolei
149b11c53e1SZhaoleiconfig CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
1505f77a88bSTom Zanussi	bool
1515f77a88bSTom Zanussi
15285bac32cSSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
15385bac32cSSteven Rostedt	bool
15485bac32cSSteven Rostedt	help
15585bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
15685bac32cSSteven Rostedt	 Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
15785bac32cSSteven Rostedt
158c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
159c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
160c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
161c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACING
162c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	default y
163c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
164c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
165c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
166c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)
1675e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
1685e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
1695e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
1705e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# options do not appear when something else selects it. We need the two options
1715e0a0939SSteven Rostedt# GENERIC_TRACER and TRACING to avoid circular dependencies to accomplish the
17240892367SRandy Dunlap# hiding of the automatic options.
1735e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
174bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING
175bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt	bool
1767a8e76a3SSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER
177c2c80529SAl Viro	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
1785f87f112SIngo Molnar	select TRACEPOINTS
179f3384b28SSteven Rostedt	select NOP_TRACER
180769b0441SFrederic Weisbecker	select BINARY_PRINTF
1815f77a88bSTom Zanussi	select EVENT_TRACING
182ea632e9fSJosh Triplett	select TRACE_CLOCK
18302b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney	select NEED_TASKS_RCU
184bc0c38d1SSteven Rostedt
1855e0a0939SSteven Rostedtconfig GENERIC_TRACER
1865e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	bool
1875e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
1885e0a0939SSteven Rostedt
18940ada30fSIngo Molnar#
19040ada30fSIngo Molnar# Minimum requirements an architecture has to meet for us to
19140ada30fSIngo Molnar# be able to offer generic tracing facilities:
19240ada30fSIngo Molnar#
19340ada30fSIngo Molnarconfig TRACING_SUPPORT
19440ada30fSIngo Molnar	bool
1950ea5ee03SMichael Ellerman	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
19640ada30fSIngo Molnar	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
197422d3c7aSKOSAKI Motohiro	default y
19840ada30fSIngo Molnar
1994ed9f071SSteven Rostedtmenuconfig FTRACE
2004ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	bool "Tracers"
201de32951bSMasahiro Yamada	depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
20265b77242SSteven Rostedt	default y if DEBUG_KERNEL
2034ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	help
2044ed9f071SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel tracing infrastructure.
2054ed9f071SSteven Rostedt
2064ed9f071SSteven Rostedtif FTRACE
20717d80fd0SPeter Zijlstra
2081e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config BOOTTIME_TRACING
2091e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
210d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on TRACING
211d8a953ddSMasami Hiramatsu	select BOOT_CONFIG
2121e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
2131e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable developer to setup ftrace subsystem via supplemental
2141e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel cmdline at boot time for debugging (tracing) driver
2151e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  initialization and boot process.
2161e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
217606576ceSSteven Rostedtconfig FUNCTION_TRACER
2181b29b018SSteven Rostedt	bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
219606576ceSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
2204d7a077cSSteven Rostedt	select KALLSYMS
2215e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
22235e8e302SSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
22360f1d5e3SMasami Hiramatsu	select GLOB
22402b3c5fcSPaul E. McKenney	select NEED_TASKS_RCU
225e5a971d7SPaul E. McKenney	select TASKS_RUDE_RCU
2261b29b018SSteven Rostedt	help
2271b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
2281b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
22940892367SRandy Dunlap	  instruction at the beginning of every kernel function, which NOP
2301b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
2311b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
2321b29b018SSteven Rostedt	  (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
2330a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google)	  small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on
2340a6d7d45SSteven Rostedt (Google)	  x86, but may have impact on other architectures).
23535e8e302SSteven Rostedt
236fb52607aSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
237fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
238fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
23915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
240eb4a0378SSteven Rostedt	depends on !X86_32 || !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
241764f3b95SIngo Molnar	default y
24215e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker	help
243fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  Enable the kernel to trace a function at both its return
244fb52607aSFrederic Weisbecker	  and its entry.
245692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  Its first purpose is to trace the duration of functions and
246692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  draw a call graph for each thread with some information like
247692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  the return value. This is done by setting the current return
248692105b8SMatt LaPlante	  address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
24915e6cb36SFrederic Weisbecker
250a1be9cccSDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
251a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Value"
252a3ed4157SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS
253a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
254a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	default n
255a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	help
256a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  Support recording and printing the function return value when
257a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate functions
258a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  that return errors. This feature is off by default, and you can
259a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retval.
260a1be9cccSDonglin Peng	  See Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
261a1be9cccSDonglin Peng
26221e92806SDonglin Pengconfig FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETADDR
26321e92806SDonglin Peng	bool "Kernel Function Graph Return Address"
26421e92806SDonglin Peng	depends on FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
26521e92806SDonglin Peng	default n
26621e92806SDonglin Peng	help
26721e92806SDonglin Peng	  Support recording and printing the function return address when
26821e92806SDonglin Peng	  using function graph tracer. It can be helpful to locate code line that
26921e92806SDonglin Peng	  the function is called. This feature is off by default, and you can
27021e92806SDonglin Peng	  enable it via the trace option funcgraph-retaddr.
27121e92806SDonglin Peng
272533c20b0SSven Schnelleconfig FUNCTION_TRACE_ARGS
273533c20b0SSven Schnelle       bool
274b81ff11cSSteven Rostedt	depends on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
275533c20b0SSven Schnelle	default y
276ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	help
277ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  If supported with function argument access API and BTF, then
278ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  the function tracer and function graph tracer will support printing
279ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  of function arguments. This feature is off by default, and can be
280ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  enabled via the trace option func-args (for the function tracer) and
281ff5c9c57SSven Schnelle	  funcgraph-args (for the function graph tracer)
282533c20b0SSven Schnelle
28361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
28461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "enable/disable function tracing dynamically"
28561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
28661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
28761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
28861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
28961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option will modify all the calls to function tracing
29061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  dynamically (will patch them out of the binary image and
29161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  replace them with a No-Op instruction) on boot up. During
29261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  compile time, a table is made of all the locations that ftrace
29361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  can function trace, and this table is linked into the kernel
29461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  image. When this is enabled, functions can be individually
29561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  enabled, and the functions not enabled will not affect
29661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  performance of the system.
29761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
2982455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  See the files in /sys/kernel/tracing:
29961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    available_filter_functions
30061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_filter
30161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	    set_ftrace_notrace
30261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
30361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This way a CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER kernel is slightly larger, but
30461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  otherwise has native performance as long as no tracing is active.
30561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
30661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
30761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
30861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
30961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
31061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
31161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
31261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	def_bool y
31360c89718SFlorent Revest	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
31461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
31561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
316cbad0fb2SMark Rutlandconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
317cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	def_bool y
318cbad0fb2SMark Rutland	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
319cbad0fb2SMark Rutland
32012f9951dSLukas Bulwahnconfig DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
32112f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	def_bool y
32212f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
32312f9951dSLukas Bulwahn	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
32412f9951dSLukas Bulwahn
325cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig FPROBE
326cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
3274346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS && HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
3284346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
3294346ba16SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
330cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
331cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
3325b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace.
3335b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  The fprobe is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function
3345b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  entries and exits. This also can probe multiple functions by one
3355b0ab789SMasami Hiramatsu	  fprobe.
336cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu
337cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
338cad9931fSMasami Hiramatsu
33961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FUNCTION_PROFILER
34061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Kernel function profiler"
34161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
34261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default n
34361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
34461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option enables the kernel function profiler. A file is created
34561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  in debugfs called function_profile_enabled which defaults to zero.
34661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  When a 1 is echoed into this file profiling begins, and when a
34761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  zero is entered, profiling stops. A "functions" file is created in
34861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the trace_stat directory; this file shows the list of functions that
34961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  have been hit and their counters.
35061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
35161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If in doubt, say N.
35261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
35361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config STACK_TRACER
35461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Trace max stack"
35561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
35661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FUNCTION_TRACER
35761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select STACKTRACE
35861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select KALLSYMS
35961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
36061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
3612455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  kernel and displays it in /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace.
36261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
36361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This tracer works by hooking into every function call that the
36461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  kernel executes, and keeping a maximum stack depth value and
36561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  stack-trace saved.  If this is configured with DYNAMIC_FTRACE
36661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  then it will not have any overhead while the stack tracer
36761778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is disabled.
36861778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
36961778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  To enable the stack tracer on bootup, pass in 'stacktrace'
37061778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  on the kernel command line.
37161778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
37261778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The stack tracer can also be enabled or disabled via the
37361778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  sysctl kernel.stack_tracer_enabled
37461778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
37561778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N if unsure.
37661778cd7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
377c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
378c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	bool
379c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
380c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
381c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  and last enabled.
382bac429f0SSteven Rostedt
38381d68a96SSteven Rostedtconfig IRQSOFF_TRACER
38481d68a96SSteven Rostedt	bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
38581d68a96SSteven Rostedt	default n
38681d68a96SSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
38781d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
3885e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
38981d68a96SSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
39085bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
39122cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
3920b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
39381d68a96SSteven Rostedt	help
39481d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
39581d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
39681d68a96SSteven Rostedt
39781d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
39881d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
39981d68a96SSteven Rostedt	  via:
40081d68a96SSteven Rostedt
4012455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
40281d68a96SSteven Rostedt
40340892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
4046cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the preempt-off timing option can be
4056cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
4066cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
4076cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedtconfig PREEMPT_TRACER
4086cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
4096cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	default n
41030c93704SThomas Gleixner	depends on PREEMPTION
4115e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
4126cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
41385bac32cSSteven Rostedt	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
41422cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
4150b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
416c3bc8fd6SJoel Fernandes (Google)	select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
4176cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	help
41840892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
4196cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  sections, with microsecond accuracy.
4206cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
4216cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  The default measurement method is a maximum search, which is
4226cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  disabled by default and can be runtime (re-)started
4236cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  via:
4246cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
4252455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
4266cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
42740892367SRandy Dunlap	  (Note that kernel size and overhead increase with this option
4286cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  enabled. This option and the irqs-off timing option can be
4296cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt	  used together or separately.)
4306cd8a4bbSSteven Rostedt
431352ad25aSSteven Rostedtconfig SCHED_TRACER
432352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	bool "Scheduling Latency Tracer"
4335e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
434352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
435352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
43622cffc2bSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
437352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	help
438352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer tracks the latency of the highest priority task
439352ad25aSSteven Rostedt	  to be scheduled in, starting from the point it has woken up.
440352ad25aSSteven Rostedt
441e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config HWLAT_TRACER
442e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Tracer to detect hardware latencies (like SMIs)"
443e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select GENERIC_TRACER
444e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
445e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
446e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This tracer, when enabled will create one or more kernel threads,
447c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 depending on what the cpumask file is set to, which each thread
448e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 spinning in a loop looking for interruptions caused by
449e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 something other than the kernel. For example, if a
450e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 System Management Interrupt (SMI) takes a noticeable amount of
451e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 time, this tracer will detect it. This is useful for testing
452e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 if a system is reliable for Real Time tasks.
453e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
454e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Some files are created in the tracing directory when this
455e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 is enabled:
456e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
457e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/width   - time in usecs for how long to spin for
458e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	   hwlat_detector/window  - time in usecs between the start of each
459e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)				     iteration
460e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
461e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 A kernel thread is created that will spin with interrupts disabled
462c5c1ea75SJesper Dangaard Brouer	 for "width" microseconds in every "window" cycle. It will not spin
463e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 for "window - width" microseconds, where the system can
464e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 continue to operate.
465e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
466e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
467e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
468e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracer is not running, it has no affect on the system,
469e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 but when it is running, it can cause the system to be
470e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 periodically non responsive. Do not run this tracer on a
471e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 production system.
472e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
473e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 To enable this tracer, echo in "hwlat" into the current_tracer
474e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 file. Every time a latency is greater than tracing_thresh, it will
475e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 be recorded into the ring buffer.
476e7c15cd8SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
477bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig OSNOISE_TRACER
478bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "OS Noise tracer"
479bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
480e25e43a4SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
481bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
482bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating
483bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  System Noise (osnoise) refers to the interference experienced by an
484bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  application due to activities inside the operating system. In the
485bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread
486bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can
487bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  also cause noise, for example, via SMIs.
488bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
489bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
490bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
491bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sources of osnoise during its execution. The osnoise tracer takes
492bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences,
493bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  increasing a per-cpu interference counter. It saves an interference
494bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for
495bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool
496bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens
497bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  without any interference from the operating system level, the
498bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related
499bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of
500bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints
501bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
502bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
503bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
504bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
505bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
506bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
507bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The output will appear in the trace and trace_pipe files.
508bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
509bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  To enable this tracer, echo in "osnoise" into the current_tracer
510bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira          file.
511bce29ac9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
512a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveiraconfig TIMERLAT_TRACER
513a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	bool "Timerlat tracer"
514a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select OSNOISE_TRACER
515a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	select GENERIC_TRACER
516a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	help
517a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers
518a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads.
519a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
520a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority.
521a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer thread sets a periodic timer to wakeup itself, and goes
522a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to sleep waiting for the timer to fire. At the wakeup, the thread
523a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  then computes a wakeup latency value as the difference between
524a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  the current time and the absolute time that the timer was set
525a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  to expire.
526a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
527a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer prints two lines at every activation. The first is the
528a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  timer latency observed at the hardirq context before the
529a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  activation of the thread. The second is the timer latency observed
530a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The
531a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the irq execution to its
532a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  respective thread execution.
533a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
534a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  The tracer is build on top of osnoise tracer, and the osnoise:
535a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  events can be used to trace the source of interference from NMI,
536a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  IRQs and other threads. It also enables the capture of the
537a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  stacktrace at the IRQ context, which helps to identify the code
538a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira	  path that can cause thread delay.
539a955d7eaSDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
54021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE
54121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Memory mapped IO tracing"
54221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT && PCI
54321b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select GENERIC_TRACER
54421b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
54521b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Mmiotrace traces Memory Mapped I/O access and is meant for
54621b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  debugging and reverse engineering. It is called from the ioremap
54721b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  implementation and works via page faults. Tracing is disabled by
54821b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  default and can be enabled at run-time.
54921b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
55021b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  See Documentation/trace/mmiotrace.rst.
55121b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If you are not helping to develop drivers, say N.
55221b3ce30SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
553897f17a6SSteven Rostedtconfig ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS
554897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace process context switches and events"
5555e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	depends on !GENERIC_TRACER
556b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING
557b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	help
55840892367SRandy Dunlap	  This tracer hooks to various trace points in the kernel,
559b77e38aaSSteven Rostedt	  allowing the user to pick and choose which trace point they
560897f17a6SSteven Rostedt	  want to trace. It also includes the sched_switch tracer plugin.
561a7abe97fSSteven Rostedt
562ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbeckerconfig FTRACE_SYSCALLS
563ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	bool "Trace syscalls"
56466700001SJosh Stone	depends on HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
5655e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
5660ea1c415SFrederic Weisbecker	select KALLSYMS
567ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	help
568ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker	  Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
569ee08c6ecSFrederic Weisbecker
570debdd57fSHiraku Toyookaconfig TRACER_SNAPSHOT
571debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
572debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
573debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	help
574debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
575debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	  ftrace interface, e.g.:
576debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
5772455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot
578debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka	      cat snapshot
579debdd57fSHiraku Toyooka
5800b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
5810b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
5820b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
5830b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
5840b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
5850b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
5860b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
5870b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  allowed:
5880b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5892455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
5900b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5910b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
5920b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
5930b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5940b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
5950b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
5960b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
5970b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
5980b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
5990b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	  and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
6000b85ffc2SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
6012ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6029ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool
6035e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
6049ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6059ae5b879SSteven Rostedtchoice
6069ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	prompt "Branch Profiling"
6079ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	default BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
6089ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
6099ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The branch profiling is a software profiler. It will add hooks
6109ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 into the C conditionals to test which path a branch takes.
6119ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6129ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 The likely/unlikely profiler only looks at the conditions that
6139ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 are annotated with a likely or unlikely macro.
6149ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
61540892367SRandy Dunlap	 The "all branch" profiler will profile every if-statement in the
6169ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	 kernel. This profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely
61740892367SRandy Dunlap	 profiler.
6189ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
61940892367SRandy Dunlap	 Either of the above profilers adds a bit of overhead to the system.
62040892367SRandy Dunlap	 If unsure, choose "No branch profiling".
6219ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6229ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE
6239ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "No branch profiling"
6249ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	help
6259ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  No branch profiling. Branch profiling adds a bit of overhead.
6269ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Only enable it if you want to analyse the branching behavior.
6279ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  Otherwise keep it disabled.
6289ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6299ae5b879SSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
6309ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely profiler"
6319ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6321f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	help
63359bf8964SMasanari Iida	  This tracer profiles all likely and unlikely macros
6341f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  in the kernel. It will display the results in:
6351f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
6362455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
6371f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
63840892367SRandy Dunlap	  Note: this will add a significant overhead; only turn this
6391f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt	  on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros.
6401f0d69a9SSteven Rostedt
6412bcd521aSSteven Rostedtconfig PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
64268e76e03SRandy Dunlap	bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
6439ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6442bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	help
6452bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
6462bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
6472bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  The results will be displayed in:
6482bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6492455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	  /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
6502bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6519ae5b879SSteven Rostedt	  This option also enables the likely/unlikely profiler.
6529ae5b879SSteven Rostedt
6532bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  This configuration, when enabled, will impose a great overhead
6542bcd521aSSteven Rostedt	  on the system. This should only be enabled when the system
65540892367SRandy Dunlap	  is to be analyzed in much detail.
6569ae5b879SSteven Rostedtendchoice
6572bcd521aSSteven Rostedt
6582ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig TRACING_BRANCHES
65952f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool
66052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
66152f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Selected by tracers that will trace the likely and unlikely
66252f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  conditions. This prevents the tracers themselves from being
66352f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  profiled. Profiling the tracing infrastructure can only happen
66452f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  when the likelys and unlikelys are not being traced.
66552f232cbSSteven Rostedt
6662ed84eebSSteven Rostedtconfig BRANCH_TRACER
66752f232cbSSteven Rostedt	bool "Trace likely/unlikely instances"
6682ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	depends on TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
6692ed84eebSSteven Rostedt	select TRACING_BRANCHES
67052f232cbSSteven Rostedt	help
67152f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  This traces the events of likely and unlikely condition
67252f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  calls in the kernel.  The difference between this and the
67352f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  "Trace likely/unlikely profiler" is that this is not a
67452f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  histogram of the callers, but actually places the calling
67552f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events into a running trace buffer to see when and where the
67652f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  events happened, as well as their results.
67752f232cbSSteven Rostedt
67852f232cbSSteven Rostedt	  Say N if unsure.
67952f232cbSSteven Rostedt
6802db270a8SFrederic Weisbeckerconfig BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
68140892367SRandy Dunlap	bool "Support for tracing block IO actions"
6822db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	depends on SYSFS
6831dfba05dSIngo Molnar	depends on BLOCK
6842db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select RELAY
6852db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select DEBUG_FS
6862db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select TRACEPOINTS
6875e0a0939SSteven Rostedt	select GENERIC_TRACER
6882db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	select STACKTRACE
6892db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	help
6902db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Say Y here if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
6912db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
6922db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  on a block device queue. For more information (and the userspace
6932db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  support tools needed), fetch the blktrace tools from:
6942db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6952db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  git://git.kernel.dk/blktrace.git
6962db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6972db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  Tracing also is possible using the ftrace interface, e.g.:
6982db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
6992db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	    echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
7002455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	    echo blk > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
7012455f0e1SRoss Zwisler	    cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
7022db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker
7032db270a8SFrederic Weisbecker	  If unsure, say N.
70436994e58SFrederic Weisbecker
705334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config FPROBE_EVENTS
706334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on FPROBE
707334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
708334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool "Enable fprobe-based dynamic events"
709334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select TRACING
710334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select PROBE_EVENTS
711334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
712334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	default y
713334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
714334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  This allows user to add tracing events on the function entry and
715334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  exit via ftrace interface. The syntax is same as the kprobe events
716334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  and the kprobe events on function entry and exit will be
717334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  transparently converted to this fprobe events.
718334e5519SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
719b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)config PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
720b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
721b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on FPROBE_EVENTS || KPROBE_EVENTS
722b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && BPF_SYSCALL
723b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	bool "Support BTF function arguments for probe events"
724b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	default y
725b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	help
726b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  The user can specify the arguments of the probe event using the names
727b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  of the arguments of the probed function, when the probe location is a
728b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  kernel function entry or a tracepoint.
729b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	  This is available only if BTF (BPF Type Format) support is enabled.
730b576e097SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
7316b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig KPROBE_EVENTS
732413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBES
733f850c30cSHeiko Carstens	depends on HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
73477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
735413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	select TRACING
7368ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
7376212dd29SMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
73877b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	default y
739413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu	help
74040892367SRandy Dunlap	  This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints)
74140892367SRandy Dunlap	  on the fly via the ftrace interface. See
7425fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab	  Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst for more details.
74377b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
74477b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
74577b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu	  various register and memory values.
74677b44d1bSMasami Hiramatsu
74740892367SRandy Dunlap	  This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools.
74840892367SRandy Dunlap	  If you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
749413d37d1SMasami Hiramatsu
75045408c4fSMasami Hiramatsuconfig KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE
75145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	bool "Do NOT protect notrace function from kprobe events"
75245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS
7537bb83f6fSMasami Hiramatsu	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
75445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	default n
75545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	help
75645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This is only for the developers who want to debug ftrace itself
75745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  using kprobe events.
75845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
75945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If kprobes can use ftrace instead of breakpoint, ftrace related
76028cc65a1SColin Ian King	  functions are protected from kprobe-events to prevent an infinite
76145408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  recursion or any unexpected execution path which leads to a kernel
76245408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  crash.
76345408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
76445408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  This option disables such protection and allows you to put kprobe
76545408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  events on ftrace functions for debugging ftrace by itself.
76645408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  Note that this might let you shoot yourself in the foot.
76745408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
76845408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu	  If unsure, say N.
76945408c4fSMasami Hiramatsu
7706b0b7551SAnton Blanchardconfig UPROBE_EVENTS
771f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	bool "Enable uprobes-based dynamic events"
772f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
773f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	depends on MMU
77409294e31SDavid A. Long	depends on PERF_EVENTS
775f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select UPROBES
776f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select PROBE_EVENTS
7770597c49cSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
778f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	select TRACING
77961f35d75SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo	default y
780f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	help
781f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
782f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the trace
783f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  events interface. Those events can be inserted wherever uprobes
784f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  can probe, and record various registers.
785f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
786f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju	  of perf tools on user space applications.
787f3f096cfSSrikar Dronamraju
788e1abf2ccSIngo Molnarconfig BPF_EVENTS
789e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
7906b0b7551SAnton Blanchard	depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
791e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	bool
792e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	default y
793e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar	help
7945cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  This allows the user to attach BPF programs to kprobe, uprobe, and
7955cbd22c1SPeter Wu	  tracepoint events.
796e1abf2ccSIngo Molnar
7975448d44cSMasami Hiramatsuconfig DYNAMIC_EVENTS
7985448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu	def_bool n
7995448d44cSMasami Hiramatsu
8008ab83f56SSrikar Dronamrajuconfig PROBE_EVENTS
8018ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju	def_bool n
8028ab83f56SSrikar Dronamraju
8039802d865SJosef Bacikconfig BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE
8049802d865SJosef Bacik	bool "Enable BPF programs to override a kprobed function"
8059802d865SJosef Bacik	depends on BPF_EVENTS
806540adea3SMasami Hiramatsu	depends on FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
8079802d865SJosef Bacik	default n
8089802d865SJosef Bacik	help
8099802d865SJosef Bacik	 Allows BPF to override the execution of a probed function and
8109802d865SJosef Bacik	 set a different return value.  This is used for error injection.
8119802d865SJosef Bacik
8128da3821bSSteven Rostedtconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
8138da3821bSSteven Rostedt	def_bool y
8148da3821bSSteven Rostedt	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
8158da3821bSSteven Rostedt	depends on HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
8168da3821bSSteven Rostedt
8173b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
8183b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	bool
8193b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
8203b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
8213b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
8223b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
8233b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on $(cc-option,-mrecord-mcount)
8243b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
8253b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
8263b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
82722c8542dSSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
82822c8542dSSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
82922c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT
83022c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
83122c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
83222c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
83303f16cd0SJosh Poimboeuf	select OBJTOOL
83422c8542dSSami Tolvanen
8353b15cdc1SSami Tolvanenconfig FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
8363b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	def_bool y
8373b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
8383b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
83922c8542dSSami Tolvanen	depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
8403b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen	depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
8413b15cdc1SSami Tolvanen
84208d43a5fSTom Zanussiconfig TRACING_MAP
84308d43a5fSTom Zanussi	bool
84408d43a5fSTom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
84508d43a5fSTom Zanussi	help
84608d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  tracing_map is a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing,
84708d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  separated out as a stand-alone facility in order to allow it
84808d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  to be shared between multiple tracers.  It isn't meant to be
84908d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  generally used outside of that context, and is normally
85008d43a5fSTom Zanussi	  selected by tracers that use it.
85108d43a5fSTom Zanussi
852726721a5STom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENTS
853726721a5STom Zanussi	bool "Synthetic trace events"
854726721a5STom Zanussi	select TRACING
855726721a5STom Zanussi	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
856726721a5STom Zanussi	default n
857726721a5STom Zanussi	help
858726721a5STom Zanussi	  Synthetic events are user-defined trace events that can be
859726721a5STom Zanussi	  used to combine data from other trace events or in fact any
860726721a5STom Zanussi	  data source.  Synthetic events can be generated indirectly
861726721a5STom Zanussi	  via the trace() action of histogram triggers or directly
862726721a5STom Zanussi	  by way of an in-kernel API.
863726721a5STom Zanussi
864726721a5STom Zanussi	  See Documentation/trace/events.rst or
865726721a5STom Zanussi	  Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
866726721a5STom Zanussi
867726721a5STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
868726721a5STom Zanussi
8697f5a08c7SBeau Belgraveconfig USER_EVENTS
8707f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	bool "User trace events"
8717f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	select TRACING
8727f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
8737f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	help
8747f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  User trace events are user-defined trace events that
8757f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  can be used like an existing kernel trace event.  User trace
8767f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  events are generated by writing to a tracefs file.  User
8777f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  processes can determine if their tracing events should be
87872357590SBeau Belgrave	  generated by registering a value and bit with the kernel
87972357590SBeau Belgrave	  that reflects when it is enabled or not.
8807f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave
88172357590SBeau Belgrave	  See Documentation/trace/user_events.rst.
8827f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave	  If in doubt, say N.
8837f5a08c7SBeau Belgrave
8847ef224d1STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS
8857ef224d1STom Zanussi	bool "Histogram triggers"
8867ef224d1STom Zanussi	depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
8877ef224d1STom Zanussi	select TRACING_MAP
8887ad8fb61STom Zanussi	select TRACING
8897bbab38dSMasami Hiramatsu	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
890726721a5STom Zanussi	select SYNTH_EVENTS
8917ef224d1STom Zanussi	default n
8927ef224d1STom Zanussi	help
8937ef224d1STom Zanussi	  Hist triggers allow one or more arbitrary trace event fields
8947ef224d1STom Zanussi	  to be aggregated into hash tables and dumped to stdout by
8957ef224d1STom Zanussi	  reading a debugfs/tracefs file.  They're useful for
8967ef224d1STom Zanussi	  gathering quick and dirty (though precise) summaries of
8977ef224d1STom Zanussi	  event activity as an initial guide for further investigation
8987ef224d1STom Zanussi	  using more advanced tools.
8997ef224d1STom Zanussi
90089e270c1STom Zanussi	  Inter-event tracing of quantities such as latencies is also
90189e270c1STom Zanussi	  supported using hist triggers under this option.
90289e270c1STom Zanussi
903ea272257SMauro Carvalho Chehab	  See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst.
9047ef224d1STom Zanussi	  If in doubt, say N.
9057ef224d1STom Zanussi
9066c3edaf9SCong Wangconfig TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
9076c3edaf9SCong Wang	bool "Trace event injection"
9086c3edaf9SCong Wang	depends on TRACING
9096c3edaf9SCong Wang	help
9106c3edaf9SCong Wang	  Allow user-space to inject a specific trace event into the ring
9116c3edaf9SCong Wang	  buffer. This is mainly used for testing purpose.
9126c3edaf9SCong Wang
9136c3edaf9SCong Wang	  If unsure, say N.
9146c3edaf9SCong Wang
91581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK
91681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints"
91781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	help
91881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event".
91981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
92069268094SRolf Eike Beer	 goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_resched() to let other tasks
92181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
92281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
92381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
92481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
92581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
92681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
92781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
92881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
92981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
93081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
93181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
93281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
93381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 An example of the output:
93481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
93581dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      START
93681dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
93781dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
93881dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
93981dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
94081dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
94181dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
94281dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	      last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
94381dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
94481dc9f0eSSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9455092dbc9SSteven Rostedtconfig RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK
9465092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester"
9475092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	depends on RING_BUFFER
9485092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	help
9495092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  This option creates a test to stress the ring buffer and benchmark it.
95040892367SRandy Dunlap	  It creates its own ring buffer such that it will not interfere with
9515092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  any other users of the ring buffer (such as ftrace). It then creates
9525092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  a producer and consumer that will run for 10 seconds and sleep for
9535092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  10 seconds. Each interval it will print out the number of events
9545092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  it recorded and give a rough estimate of how long each iteration took.
9555092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
9565092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  It does not disable interrupts or raise its priority, so it may be
9575092dbc9SSteven Rostedt	  affected by processes that are running.
9585092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
95940892367SRandy Dunlap	  If unsure, say N.
9605092dbc9SSteven Rostedt
9611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE
9621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Show eval mappings for trace events"
9631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on TRACING
9641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
9651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	The "print fmt" of the trace events will show the enum/sizeof names
9661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	instead of their values. This can cause problems for user space tools
9671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	that use this string to parse the raw data as user space does not know
9681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	how to convert the string to its value.
9691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	To fix this, there's a special macro in the kernel that can be used
9711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	to convert an enum/sizeof into its value. If this macro is used, then
9721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	the print fmt strings will be converted to their values.
9731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If something does not get converted properly, this option can be
9751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	used to show what enums/sizeof the kernel tried to convert.
9761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	This option is for debugging the conversions. A file is created
9781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	in the tracing directory called "eval_map" that will show the
9791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	names matched with their values and what trace event system they
9801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	belong too.
9811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	Normally, the mapping of the strings to values will be freed after
9831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	boot up or module load. With this option, they will not be freed, as
9841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	they are needed for the "eval_map" file. Enabling this option will
9851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	increase the memory footprint of the running kernel.
9861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
9871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	If unsure, say N.
9881e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
989773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
990773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in function tracing"
991773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
992773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
993773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort
994773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  of protection against recursion. Even though the protection exists,
995773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  it adds overhead. This option will create a file in the tracefs
996773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file system called "recursed_functions" that will list the functions
997773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that triggered a recursion.
998773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
999773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
1000773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1001773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N
1002773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1003773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE
1004773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	int "Max number of recursed functions to record"
1005773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default 128
1006773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
1007773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1008773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This defines the limit of number of functions that can be
1009773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  listed in the "recursed_functions" file, that lists all
1010773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  the functions that caused a recursion to happen.
1011773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This file can be reset, but the limit can not change in
1012773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  size at runtime.
1013773c1670SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1014b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryikoconfig FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING
1015b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	bool "Validate RCU is on during ftrace execution"
1016b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
1017b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	depends on ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
1018b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	help
1019b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  All callbacks that attach to the function tracing have some sort of
1020b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  protection against recursion. This option is only to verify that
1021b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  ftrace (and other users of ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()) are not
1022b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  called outside of RCU, as if they are, it can cause a race. But it
1023b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  also has a noticeable overhead when enabled.
1024b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko
1025b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko	  If unsure, say N
1026b0e28a4bSAndrii Nakryiko
102728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION
102828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Record functions that recurse in the ring buffer"
102928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
103028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	# default y, because it is coupled with FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION
103128575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
103228575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
103328575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  The ring buffer has its own internal recursion. Although when
1034ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	  recursion happens it won't cause harm because of the protection,
1035ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	  but it does cause unwanted overhead. Enabling this option will
103628575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  place where recursion was detected into the ftrace "recursed_functions"
103728575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  file.
103828575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
103928575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will add more overhead to cases that have recursion.
104028575c61SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10411e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE
10421e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem"
10431e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GCOV_KERNEL
10441e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10451e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Enable GCOV profiling on ftrace subsystem for checking
10461e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  which functions/lines are tested.
10471e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10481e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  If unsure, say N.
10491e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10501e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Note that on a kernel compiled with this config, ftrace will
10511e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  run significantly slower.
10521e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10531e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SELFTEST
10541e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool
10551e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10561e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10571e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Perform a startup test on ftrace"
10581e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on GENERIC_TRACER
10591e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	select FTRACE_SELFTEST
10601e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10611e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a series of startup tests on ftrace. On bootup
10621e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  a series of tests are made to verify that the tracer is
10631e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  functioning properly. It will do tests on all the configured
10641e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  tracers of ftrace.
10651e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10661e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10671e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on trace events"
10681e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10691e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	default y
10701e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10711e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This option performs a test on all trace events in the system.
10721e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  It basically just enables each event and runs some code that
10731e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  will trigger events (not necessarily the event it enables)
10741e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This may take some time run as there are a lot of events.
10751e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10761e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config EVENT_TRACE_TEST_SYSCALLS
10771e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Run selftest on syscall events"
10781e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on EVENT_TRACE_STARTUP_TEST
10791e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
10801e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 This option will also enable testing every syscall event.
10811e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 It only enables the event and disables it and runs various loads
10821e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 with the event enabled. This adds a bit more time for kernel boot
10831e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 up since it runs this on every system call defined.
10841e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10851e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 TBD - enable a way to actually call the syscalls as we test their
10861e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	       events
10871e837945SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
10888147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST
10898147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       bool "Verify compile time sorting of ftrace functions"
10908147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
10916b9b6413SSteven Rostedt (Google)       depends on BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
10928147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)       help
10938147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 Sorting of the mcount_loc sections that is used to find the
10948147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 where the ftrace knows where to patch functions for tracing
10958147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 and other callbacks is done at compile time. But if the sort
10968147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 is not done correctly, it will cause non-deterministic failures.
10978147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 When this is set, the sorted sections will be verified that they
10988147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 are in deed sorted and will warn if they are not.
10998147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11008147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	 If unsure, say N
11018147dc78SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11026c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)config RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST
11036c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       bool "Ring buffer startup self test"
11046c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       depends on RING_BUFFER
11056c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)       help
11066c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 Run a simple self test on the ring buffer on boot up. Late in the
11076c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 kernel boot sequence, the test will start that kicks off
11086c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 a thread per cpu. Each thread will write various size events
11096c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 into the ring buffer. Another thread is created to send IPIs
11106c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to each of the threads, where the IPI handler will also write
11116c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 to the ring buffer, to test/stress the nesting ability.
11126c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If any anomalies are discovered, a warning will be displayed
11136c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 and all ring buffers will be disabled.
11146c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
11156c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 The test runs for 10 seconds. This will slow your boot time
11166c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 by at least 10 more seconds.
11176c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
1118ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	 At the end of the test, statistics and more checks are done.
1119ac28d0a0SRandy Dunlap	 It will output the stats of each per cpu buffer: What
11206c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 was written, the sizes, what was read, what was lost, and
11216c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 other similar details.
11226c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
11236c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)	 If unsure, say N
11246c43e554SSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
11255b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS
11265b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bool "Verify ring buffer time stamp deltas"
11275b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on RING_BUFFER
11285b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
11295b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This will audit the time stamps on the ring buffer sub
11305b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  buffer to make sure that all the time deltas for the
11315b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  events on a sub buffer matches the current time stamp.
11325b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This audit is performed for every event that is not
11335b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  interrupted, or interrupting another event. A check
11345b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  is also made when traversing sub buffers to make sure
11355b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  that all the deltas on the previous sub buffer do not
11365b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  add up to be greater than the current time stamp.
11375b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11385b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  NOTE: This adds significant overhead to recording of events,
11395b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  and should only be used to test the logic of the ring buffer.
11405b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Do not use it on production systems.
11415b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
11425b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Only say Y if you understand what this does, and you
11435b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  still want it enabled. Otherwise say N
11445b7be9c7SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1145a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)config MMIOTRACE_TEST
1146a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module for mmiotrace"
1147a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	depends on MMIOTRACE && m
1148a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	help
1149a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  This is a dumb module for testing mmiotrace. It is very dangerous
1150a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  as it will write garbage to IO memory starting at a given address.
1151a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  However, it should be safe to use on e.g. unused portion of VRAM.
1152a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1153a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	  Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
1154a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
1155f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)config PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST
1156a48fc4f5SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tristate "Test module to create a preempt / IRQ disable delay thread to test latency tracers"
1157f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	depends on m
1158f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	help
1159f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  Select this option to build a test module that can help test latency
1160f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  tracers by executing a preempt or irq disable section with a user
1161f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  configurable delay. The module busy waits for the duration of the
1162f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  critical section.
1163f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
116479393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  For example, the following invocation generates a burst of three
116579393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  irq-disabled critical sections for 500us:
116679393723SViktor Rosendahl (BMW)	  modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=irq delay=500 burst_size=3
1167f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
11684b9091e1SSong Chen	  What's more, if you want to attach the test on the cpu which the latency
11694b9091e1SSong Chen	  tracer is running on, specify cpu_affinity=cpu_num at the end of the
11704b9091e1SSong Chen	  command.
11714b9091e1SSong Chen
1172f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)	  If unsure, say N
1173f96e8577SJoel Fernandes (Google)
11749fe41efaSTom Zanussiconfig SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST
11759fe41efaSTom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel synthetic event generation"
11763572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on SYNTH_EVENTS && m
11779fe41efaSTom Zanussi	help
11789fe41efaSTom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
11799fe41efaSTom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel synthetic event definition and
11809fe41efaSTom Zanussi          generation.
11819fe41efaSTom Zanussi
11829fe41efaSTom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
11839fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  for the generated sample events.
11849fe41efaSTom Zanussi
11859fe41efaSTom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
11869fe41efaSTom Zanussi
118764836248STom Zanussiconfig KPROBE_EVENT_GEN_TEST
118864836248STom Zanussi	tristate "Test module for in-kernel kprobe event generation"
11893572bd56SMasami Hiramatsu (Google)	depends on KPROBE_EVENTS && m
119064836248STom Zanussi	help
119164836248STom Zanussi          This option creates a test module to check the base
119264836248STom Zanussi          functionality of in-kernel kprobe event definition.
119364836248STom Zanussi
119464836248STom Zanussi          To test, insert the module, and then check the trace buffer
119564836248STom Zanussi	  for the generated kprobe events.
119664836248STom Zanussi
119764836248STom Zanussi	  If unsure, say N.
119864836248STom Zanussi
11992d19bd79STom Zanussiconfig HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG
12002d19bd79STom Zanussi	bool "Hist trigger debug support"
12012d19bd79STom Zanussi	depends on HIST_TRIGGERS
12022d19bd79STom Zanussi	help
12032d19bd79STom Zanussi          Add "hist_debug" file for each event, which when read will
12042d19bd79STom Zanussi          dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers
12052d19bd79STom Zanussi          defined on that event.
12062d19bd79STom Zanussi
12072d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug file serves a couple of purposes:
12082d19bd79STom Zanussi
12092d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Helps developers verify that nothing is broken.
12102d19bd79STom Zanussi
12112d19bd79STom Zanussi            - Provides educational information to support the details
12122d19bd79STom Zanussi              of the hist trigger internals as described by
12132d19bd79STom Zanussi              Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst.
12142d19bd79STom Zanussi
12152d19bd79STom Zanussi          The hist_debug output only covers the data structures
12162d19bd79STom Zanussi          related to the histogram definitions themselves and doesn't
12172d19bd79STom Zanussi          display the internals of map buckets or variable values of
12182d19bd79STom Zanussi          running histograms.
12192d19bd79STom Zanussi
12202d19bd79STom Zanussi          If unsure, say N.
12212d19bd79STom Zanussi
1222102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveirasource "kernel/trace/rv/Kconfig"
1223102227b9SDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
12244ed9f071SSteven Rostedtendif # FTRACE
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